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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

We are wiser than we know.